Morroblivion

anthelius, i can fix you an animated lava pool, i just take the ashmire anim and change the texture to lava and tweak the fx

also the same goes for waterfalls

Looks great as usual. I like the idea of having a set of meshes that can be applied to large areas of the landscape, rather than meticulously placing rocks one at a time. We should be able to ensure great effects with less effort this way.

Also nice not to have just the Skyrim stuff re-textured as well. Gives back an original-ness to the Morrowind game.

Looks great but if you want to make rocks, what we need the most are some specific lava cliffs and peaks for the ashlands, something realy different compared to skyrim mountains (and if we could have some animated lava pools and waterfalls it could be awesome ).

Yes agreed. I have made resources out of all the DirtCliffs, Mountains and Rocks in Skyrim and have re-textured them using the variant textures functionality and this is included in our next release. However making another mountain that just looks like a Skyrim mountain but re-textured might not be as good as a custom built look :) I'm going to re-texture Throat of the World now and see what it looks like.

Machine used the Dawnguard lava effects, i think they are included in the new release as well.

I can get you the tree models, or the tools to produce them your self if needed.

Holy sh*t - redonkulous as usual (yes thats a word look up urban dictionary).

Is the ash-slave i see wondering the fields of the westgash?

Trees...ahhh...my second favorite topic...of course behind rocks...oh and I'm not kidding.

Trees are a big subject, can't live without trees. So many things to talk about...but I'll save that for another day...awesome stuff as usual from our master modeler.

Really need to figure out how to animate them...anyone?

Some of Vurt's trees are pretty good.  I'd look few a few of them and see if we want to use them.  We probably wouldn't want all of them though, that's for sure.

I've spent a while adding a few more Skyrim landscape type models for level designers and it becoming clearer and clearer to me that we need to make our OWN meshes.

Sure the available set can get the job done, but in a fairly compromising way.

Here it is; Skyrim assets are broadly based around rocks. Morrowind has a lot of rocks, but most of the areas are subject to argument what the ground is made of. If its deemed that a hill is in fact a good proportion of solid rock then fine, these Skyrim assets do the job nicely.

But one problem at the moment is that we run the risk of adding too many rocks into the world.

Also Morrowind is made up of a lot of small hills. Of course it depends on what region you are in, but its almost 90% based around these small rolling hills and mounds.

You even need to notice the common shape and angle of these hills to start to get a feel for what type of landscape models would better suit the Morrowind environment.

After playing around with re-texturing Dirt Cliffs, Rocks, Tundra, Volcanic, Mountains and designing in the Creation Kit, in my opinion, unless you spend a lot of time trying to "merge" the pieces into the landscape they otherwise become too dominate. We are trying to keep the original feel, while making it seem like a more visually realistic environment.

My apologies to those that might have already come up with conclusion but until you actually try the models in the world its hard to know what works.

Ravannas models at the top of the thread are absolutely the type of things we need. The problem with the Skyrim dirt cliffs is that they were made for much higher faces and more or less used for level changes of one flat area to another. Morrowind is always a series of rolling hills, 30%-45% and continuous. Making the dirt cliffs work is doable, but also a real pain. The angles of the meshes don't fit well with the slopes and if you're good you will try and make them unrecognizable as Skyrim stuff. Its a lot of effort.

So the embankments are one area of models that would be nice to have people working on. The model that Ravanna did above was one very big one, but I think we need a series of small ones as well. Made to shapes that will be easier to apply to 20%-45% slopes. Again depending on area but rather than rocks we can have dirt rubble, just to keep the volume of rocky surfaces down. If you can imagine a series of models that have much the shape of hill side but with broken surfaces to show small erosion. Where the Skyrim dirt cliff are based on 90% angles, these ones will be designed for more like 30% and more concave than convex in shape.

All this explanation is a bit fuzzy, but I just want us to get talking about it again.

Most importantly we avoid making Morrowind look like Skyrim.

i did it with a heavy glow and on a little mushroom in seyda neen

does it actually emit light or is it just a texture?

it doesnt emit light, we will have to add, but it does do a cool effect if i set it up right.

You have to seriously revise the top part of the leftmost mesh. The texture and stuff is all distorted.

I'm almost certain you know this ^^

Otherwise that look SUPER shweet! I can hardly wait to try these out, and maychance make a bunch of my own.

Well done good sir!

wow they look great i can't wait to see them in game!

So after seeing the Elder Scrolls Online leaked footage, it looks like Skywind is going to be even more epic. After seeing what I call another cartoony WoW clone, it looks like its up to the team hear to bring Morrowind to true life, keep up the brilliant models!

That cave entrance looks so cozy and inviting to explore :)

Awesome job.

Speaking of which do you guys plan on carrying over the Skyrim armor and tweaking it or going with the ugly morrowind conversion method? The bonemold will go when I download this mod. It lashes with the graphics engine and I don't care how nice you had to be to not hurt the guy's feelings and or why you went with that version. K.I.S.S.

But isn't a bit redundant to to rework existing armors? Isn't it easier just to make adjustments to existing ones in the sense of more body parts (2x gauntlets , 2x pauldrons, graves ) then rework from scratch? I agree that some armors are unique but others are just variations of existing ones ( a lot of new lore friendly new armors were made from combining existing parts ), a technique which could be applied here as well ... :)

The jagged rocks would look so much better than those smooth vanilla ones based on the original Morrowind.